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What tradition at Memorial Elementary School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
557
Elementary
DISTRICT 443 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCMINNVILLE SD 40·NCES 410801001281
Memorial Elementary School
501 NW 14th St, McMinnville, OR 97128 · (503) 565-4800 · Yamhill County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Oregon public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
430 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
58.6%
OR avg 43.0% . -6.0pp since 2023
Math
57.1%
OR avg 31.8% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.6% | 57.1% |
| 2023-24 | 64.6% | 61.6% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Oregon's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Memorial Elementary School
Memorial Elementary School's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Elementary School this school | 557 | 77.2% | 55.0% |
| Sage Elementary School Redmond | 493 | 75.7% | 50.3% |
| Barnes Butte Elementary Prineville | 510 | 79.4% | 37.4% |
| Meadow Ridge Elementary Albany | 510 | 76.3% | 37.1% |
| Richardson Elementary School Central Point | 500 | 78.8% | 23.9% |
| Tom McCall Elementary School Redmond | 463 | 74.3% | 40.9% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Memorial Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Yamhill County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #89 of 591 | #2 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #92 of 646 ▼ 26 | #2 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #136 of 646 ▼ 52 | #2 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #34 of 710 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #468 of 587 | #14 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #342 of 587 | #11 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.2% | #292 of 645 | #9 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #402 of 493 | #15 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
557
+33 (+6%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 567
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 19.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 557 | 29.5 | 18.9:1 | 77% (430) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 31.6 | 16.8:1 | 38% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 551 | 28 | 19.7:1 | 26% (144) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 27 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 30.7 | 20.0:1 | 44% (270) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 27 | 20.9:1 | 44% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 23 | 22.8:1 | 40% (209) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 20 | 23.3:1 | 31% (143) |
| 1990-91 | 567 | 25 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (613 to 557); teachers down 4% (30.7 to 29.5).
About Memorial Elementary School
Memorial Elementary School is a large elementary school with its address in McMinnville, Oregon. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 557 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Oregon is about 321 students, so this school is 74% above average.
McMinnville SD 40 runs 9 schools with a combined 6,293 students. Memorial Elementary School is one of them.
At 69%, White students outnumber all other groups at Memorial Elementary School combined. It is also 21% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Memorial Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 47%.
The school has about 18.9 students per teacher and 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is over the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 77%. That is close to the 77% average for public schools in Yamhill County.
The allk12 Grade for Memorial Elementary School is A. Compared with Oregon public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Memorial Elementary School would score about 32.6%. It scores 55.0%, a top-10% result among Oregon schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Yamhill County this way: median household income is about $90,063, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Yamhill County number 34 and enroll about 14,724.
The closest public school to Memorial Elementary School is McMinnville High School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Nearby schools with test data average 36.0% proficiency; Memorial Elementary School posts 55.0%.
NCES describes the area around Memorial Elementary School as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Memorial Elementary School had 524 students in 2020-21 and 557 in 2024-25, a 6% increase.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Yamhill County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
108,734
Census ACS
Median income
$90,063
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
14,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in McMinnville SD 40
- McMinnville High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Duniway Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Patton Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Grandhaven Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Newby Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
- Willamette Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
Other schools in McMinnville
- McMinnville High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Duniway Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Patton Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Grandhaven Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Newby Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
- Willamette Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
Other Memorial Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 10 states are named Memorial Elementary. Memorial Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 22.
- Memorial Elementary SchoolWESLACO, TX · 1,109 students
- MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLARCADIA, FL · 861 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolMontvale, NJ · 532 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 474 students
- MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAVON PARK, FL · 466 students
Nearby schools
- McMinnville High School0.5 mi · 2,228
- Duniway Middle School0.5 mi · 761
- Newby Elementary School0.7 mi · 443
- Patton Middle School0.9 mi · 646
- Grandhaven Elementary School1.3 mi · 446
- Willamette Elementary School1.4 mi · 443
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School enrolls approximately 557 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Memorial Elementary School serve?
Memorial Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Memorial Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Memorial Elementary School is approximately 18.9:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School reports a student body of 69% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Memorial Elementary School public or private?
Memorial Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by McMinnville SD 40.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.